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Old 05-06-2020, 07:09 PM
 
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation is proposing to replace the annual Day Of Prayer with a Day Of Reason. H.R. bill 947 would designate May 7 a “National Day of Reason” and recognize the “central importance of reason in the betterment of humanity.”
Good Grief...

Does everything have to be a competition and/or counter with holidays or other marked days of some sort of celebration, etc? The celebrations and days just become political pawns in some deranged game of chess.

Take Christmas for example. First off, the day is moved to December to aid the economy and help people get through the winter without offing themselves due to seasonal affective disorder, then we have to add Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, etc. because folks were feeling left out.

You would think the Atheists or the FFRF would be the one's to come up with something original to break the trend, but I guess not, huh...?

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Time for another $1k donation to FFRF.
Maybe yourself and the FFRF can get together and use your donation to write some "Reason Carols" for the Holidays? Suggestions below....

"The Twelve Proofs Of Physics"
"It's Beginning To Look Alot Like Science"
"The First Nobel"
"God Test Ye Very Mental-Men"
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Old 05-06-2020, 07:26 PM
 
Location: Parts Unknown, Northern California
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Maybe yourself and the FFRF can get together and use your donation to write some "Reason Carols" for the Holidays? Suggestions below....

"The Twelve Proofs Of Physics"
"It's Beginning To Look Alot Like Science"
"The First Nobel"
"God Test Ye Very Mental-Men"
All good ideas. We can also establish a tradition of annual TV specials

1. The Little Drummer Boy Who Demonstrated The Doppler Effect
2. Frosty The Absolute Zero Snowman
3. The Year The Grinch Sold Christmas
4. It's Saturnalia Charlie Brown
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Old 05-06-2020, 07:31 PM
 
Location: Sun City West, Arizona
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Good Grief...

Does everything have to be a competition and/or counter with holidays or other marked days of some sort of celebration, etc? The celebrations and days just become political pawns in some deranged game of chess.

Take Christmas for example. First off, the day is moved to December to aid the economy and help people get through the winter without offing themselves due to seasonal affective disorder, then we have to add Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, etc. because folks were feeling left out.

You would think the Atheists or the FFRF would be the one's to come up with something original to break the trend, but I guess not, huh...?



Maybe yourself and the FFRF can get together and use your donation to write some "Reason Carols" for the Holidays? Suggestions below....

"The Twelve Proofs Of Physics"
"It's Beginning To Look Alot Like Science"
"The First Nobel"
"God Test Ye Very Mental-Men"
It's tough always being in the majority, isn't it.
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Old 05-06-2020, 08:27 PM
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I like it! It reminded me of this quote by John Adams in "A Defense of the Constitution of Government of the United States of America":

"It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the inspiration of heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in mechandize or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and senses"

It about time we not forget it and get back to acknowledging such and rid the Nation of this Christian myth about prayer and our founders.
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Old 05-06-2020, 08:50 PM
 
Location: Sun City West, Arizona
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I like it! It reminded me of this quote by John Adams in "A Defense of the Constitution of Government of the United States of America":

"It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the inspiration of heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in mechandize or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and senses"

It about time we not forget it and get back to acknowledging such and rid the Nation of this Christian myth about prayer and our founders.
Thank you, Shiloh.
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Old 05-07-2020, 04:32 AM
 
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Time for another $1k donation to FFRF.
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oh, and we give our tithes because we want to.

to the list it goes.

15) Do we donate to causes directly expressing our statement of belief about god.
I’m donating to protect the first amendment.

It protects you too, your welcome.
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Old 05-07-2020, 04:49 AM
 
Location: West Virginia
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Take Christmas for example. First off, the day is moved to December to aid the economy and help people get through the winter without offing themselves due to seasonal affective disorder, then we have to add Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, etc. because folks were feeling left out.

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You know Hanukkah existed for centuries before Christmas started, don't you?
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Old 05-07-2020, 05:23 AM
 
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I’m donating to protect the first amendment.

It protects you too, your welcome.
yup, we all have reason(s) for tithing.

thank you to all Americans that stand up for freedom of religion.
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Old 05-07-2020, 05:41 AM
 
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yup, we all have reason(s) for tithing.

thank you to all Americans that stand up for freedom of religion.
I also served to protect you and the constitution that protects you.

You’re welcome, assuming you’re a US citizen.



Did you serve?
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Old 05-07-2020, 06:11 AM
 
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All good ideas. We can also establish a tradition of annual TV specials

1. The Little Drummer Boy Who Demonstrated The Doppler Effect
2. Frosty The Absolute Zero Snowman
3. The Year The Grinch Sold Christmas
4. It's Saturnalia Charlie Brown
How about "Do they know it's war on Christmas?"

"Choppin' down the Christmas tree"

"I'm dreamin' of an ex -Christmas."

It's just kidding, like baby -eating, fornication in the streets, and cattle trucks. An atheist -dominated society would use perfectly normal train -carriages to transport Christians to the Gulags.

No, Christmas is fine, and as secular as we could wish, with gluttony, drinking and calendars with scantily -clad ladies in Santa hats. Even Nativity scenes and plays would be fine with a disclaimer "This scene is totally mythical and bears no relation other than coincidentally to any historical event, either in Luke or Matthew's version".
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